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Somali Vulnerable Actors (SOVA) is a Somali registered indigenous non-governmental and non-profit making organization (NGO), instituted staffed, and managed by a faculty of Somali professionals. Conceptualized and discussed since the year 2011, the organization was officially launched early 2012 by a group of Somali intellectuals concerned with the people from Jubah,Bay and Gedo regions. Somali civil strife and the increasing inability of communities to respond to the vexing humanitarian tragedy gripping the country. And it is neighborhood has now taken up the challenges of articulation and contribution to the country’s development priority agenda as it entered the third millennium. The organization has embarked on different humanitarian projects, Relief, health,Nutrition sanitation, environmental and human rights. The organization has been in operation since and has been able to meet the targeted groups in Bay,jubba and Gedo Region in southern Somalia where recurrent drought, fighting and deterioration of nutrition situation, Health and agricultural yields are its lowest magnitude since 1991. VISION SOVA’s vision is to improve, enhance and positively transform the social and economic structures that generate poverty and violence of the target communities

MISSION SOVA is dedicated to improve Nutrition, Health, Education, Agriculture and Livelihood, and support disabled people; adult and children, disease prevention and improving the health of the local communities, and the empowerment of civil society.

SOVA primary goals include: •	Initiating programs that lead to the promotion of livelihoods where people can live in dignity and fullness. •	Seeking the will of people to participate in the transformation of negative trends affecting their livelihoods. •	Create awareness on basic human rights and privileges •	Pursuing changes through the promotion of networking and information sharing. •	Empower women and the youth on sustainable activities •	Health promotional matters, Nutrition, Protection, sanitation, security and job creations. •	Support a development initiated project of any kind. •	Peace building through Training, Workshops, Media and Sports and as well support to local authorities. •	 Promotes the situation of Somalis living in Bay, Jubbah and Gedo Region by giving trainings, seminars, studies support, and academically studies in the coming future. •	Promote gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (Projects targeting young women, Projects that take into account issues affecting both men & women, Proportional access to information) •	Promote Urban Economy (Employment, Job & business training)

OBJECTIVES In General, Somali Vulnerable Actors (SOVA) was founded to participate humanitarian activities in Somalia, and in particular activities in Jubbah,Bay and Gedo region and in order to realize the objectives, SOVA has setup the following guidelines:

•	Illiteracy elimination through sustainable, qualitative and accessible basic orphan’s education and vocational training for every gender. •	Implement nutrition program such as TSFPs, BSFPs, IYCF,CHP,MCHN, NHHP, and OTP Program •	Promote the establishment and enforcement of adequate mobilization against child abuse, Labor and trafficking.

•	In the future to improve the quality and accessibility of drinking water. •	Promoting mother and child care health centre’s MCH'S. •	Rehabilitate boreholes and other facilities in these regions. •	Raising community awareness through media promotional materials, seminars and workshops. •	Elevate the poverty levels to self-reliance, influencing decision-making process, ownership, democratization, strengthening civil society and improving the relation between the regions where SOVA is active and surrounding regions: •	To function as an advisory organ between local, international and donor organization. •	Poverty alleviation through small-scale food production programs which will lead access to food for every body. SOVA encourages that intellectual Diaspora community go back to Somalia and participate in the reconstruction of Somalia. It also urges donor countries and aid organizations to facilitate intellectual Diaspora community to be to Somalia. SOVA welcomes development programs either from individuals, countries or group of investors to setup productive projects in Somalia. This will create jobs and improve the livelihood of the Somali society. CORE VALUES •	Respect to human values, tradition and beliefs •	Impartiality •	Transparency and accountability •	Committed to helping the poor and the needy people •	Flexibility; openness and appropriate  sustainability •	We work regardless of race, gender or political opinion. •	SOVA is flexible to sound change and welcomes creations from significant stakeholders.

Cluster Membership Somali Vulnerable Actors (SOVA) is a member of the following clusters. 1. Nutrition 2. Health 3. Protection 4. GBVWG 5. Food security 6. IYCFWG

Board of Trustees

SOVA has 6 Board of trustees (3 female and 3 male in order to make a good leadership SOVA gives equal right to both genders within the organization decision making.

SOVA Organization Board Members SOVA 6 Board members govern SOVA. The organization’s Board is responsible for the establishment and formulation of the organizational policy, overseeing and ensuring the NGO’s accountability to the stakeholders and organizing fundraising events for the NGO to promote its sustainability. The Board is elected every two years. It is also the responsibility of the Board members to elect the executive director of the organization.

Management Team Structure The management team of the Organization is responsible for implementation of the projects at the field level and reporting to the donors in close coordination and working with the stakeholders.

Target Group SOVA’s operations are designed to meet the needs of the affected people of all categories, the marginalized and the oppressed. SOVA supports initiatives from beneficiaries to promote their lives.

The Organization’s target groups include:

	Women 	The poor marginalized communities 	Communities affected by disasters (Natural and man-made) 	Youth and the vulnerable people 	The Internal Displaced People 	Communities with special needs

Focus: SOVA focuses on: •	Nutrition •	Health •	Agriculture and Livelihood •	Education •	Water Education and sanitation (WES) •	HIV/AIDS & FGM •	Human Rights •	 Humanitarian Response to emergencies •	Organizational Capacity Building •	Income generations for small scale projects •	Other NGOs capacity building •	Protection

Strategies and implementation approaches. Fund maintenance Our funds are entirely donated by well-wishers within the local’s and in the Diaspora. These contributions are just but a fraction of what is needed most of the times. To realize a more workable situation, SOVA operates on the budget on the ground and hence all the intended purposes are met but with limited options being given to the most urgent on its agenda and at the situation on ground.

SOVA pursues the following strategies and approaches to realize the execution of its objectives and a center core to reach its long-term vision. 	Institutional Capacity Building 	Lobbying, Advocacy and networking 	Partnership with donors UN and INGOs 	Partnership with local community 	Close cooperation with regional administrations 	Awareness campaigns

List of SOVA office Management Team 1.	Program Manager 2.	Program Coordinator 3.	Admin &Finance Officer 4.	Health & Nutrition Officer 5.	Livelihood officer 6.	Education, Agri&livelihood officer

List of all projects implemented by SOVA in Somalia since 2011

No.	Name of project	Donor	Name of referee at donor agency	Telephone number of referee at donor agency	E-Mail address of referee at donor agency	Type of activity District	Budget 1	Nutrition	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	IYCF	Belethawa	$11,000 2	Nutrition	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	NHHP	Belethawa	 $12,300 3	Livelihood	DIRECT AID	Mohamed Barre	0615906059	directaidsomalia@gmail.com	2500 hectors ploughing	Bardera	$32,300 4	Livelihood	DIRECT AID	Mohamed Barre	0615906059	directaidsomalia@gmail.com	Rehabilitation of irrigation canals at Zone 9 of Bardera Irrigation farms	Bardera	$43,200 5	Livelihood	BADA	Abdullahi Ahmed	0617136335	badabardera@yahoo.com	Provision of Seeds to the irrigated and rain fed farms in	Bardera	$13,800 6	Livelihood	RAAS	Abdi Hassan	0615569454	raasfpc@yahoo.com	Assisting returnees to re-cultivate their abandoned agricultural areas Maykarey area under	Garbaharey	$10,206 7	Nutrition	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	Breastfeeding	Belethawa	$6,000 8	Protection	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	Training, counseling, the risk against GBV and its prevention	Belethawa	$8,000

Sovasomalia2011 (talk) 10:44, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Somali Vulnerable Actors (SOVA) is a Somali registered indigenous non-governmental and non-profit making organization (NGO), instituted staffed, and managed by a faculty of Somali professionals. Conceptualized and discussed since the year 2011, the organization was officially launched early 2012 by a group of Somali intellectuals concerned with the people from Jubah,Bay and Gedo regions. Somali civil strife and the increasing inability of communities to respond to the vexing humanitarian tragedy gripping the country. And it is neighborhood has now taken up the challenges of articulation and contribution to the country’s development priority agenda as it entered the third millennium. The organization has embarked on different humanitarian projects, Relief, health,Nutrition sanitation, environmental and human rights. The organization has been in operation since and has been able to meet the targeted groups in Bay,jubba and Gedo Region in southern Somalia where recurrent drought, fighting and deterioration of nutrition situation, Health and agricultural yields are its lowest magnitude since 1991. VISION SOVA’s vision is to improve, enhance and positively transform the social and economic structures that generate poverty and violence of the target communities

MISSION SOVA is dedicated to improve Nutrition, Health, Education, Agriculture and Livelihood, and support disabled people; adult and children, disease prevention and improving the health of the local communities, and the empowerment of civil society.

SOVA primary goals include: •	Initiating programs that lead to the promotion of livelihoods where people can live in dignity and fullness. •	Seeking the will of people to participate in the transformation of negative trends affecting their livelihoods. •	Create awareness on basic human rights and privileges •	Pursuing changes through the promotion of networking and information sharing. •	Empower women and the youth on sustainable activities •	Health promotional matters, Nutrition, Protection, sanitation, security and job creations. •	Support a development initiated project of any kind. •	Peace building through Training, Workshops, Media and Sports and as well support to local authorities. •	 Promotes the situation of Somalis living in Bay, Jubbah and Gedo Region by giving trainings, seminars, studies support, and academically studies in the coming future. •	Promote gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (Projects targeting young women, Projects that take into account issues affecting both men & women, Proportional access to information) •	Promote Urban Economy (Employment, Job & business training)

OBJECTIVES In General, Somali Vulnerable Actors (SOVA) was founded to participate humanitarian activities in Somalia, and in particular activities in Jubbah,Bay and Gedo region and in order to realize the objectives, SOVA has setup the following guidelines:

•	Illiteracy elimination through sustainable, qualitative and accessible basic orphan’s education and vocational training for every gender. •	Implement nutrition program such as TSFPs, BSFPs, IYCF,CHP,MCHN, NHHP, and OTP Program •	Promote the establishment and enforcement of adequate mobilization against child abuse, Labor and trafficking.

•	In the future to improve the quality and accessibility of drinking water. •	Promoting mother and child care health centre’s MCH'S. •	Rehabilitate boreholes and other facilities in these regions. •	Raising community awareness through media promotional materials, seminars and workshops. •	Elevate the poverty levels to self-reliance, influencing decision-making process, ownership, democratization, strengthening civil society and improving the relation between the regions where SOVA is active and surrounding regions: •	To function as an advisory organ between local, international and donor organization. •	Poverty alleviation through small-scale food production programs which will lead access to food for every body. SOVA encourages that intellectual Diaspora community go back to Somalia and participate in the reconstruction of Somalia. It also urges donor countries and aid organizations to facilitate intellectual Diaspora community to be to Somalia. SOVA welcomes development programs either from individuals, countries or group of investors to setup productive projects in Somalia. This will create jobs and improve the livelihood of the Somali society. CORE VALUES •	Respect to human values, tradition and beliefs •	Impartiality •	Transparency and accountability •	Committed to helping the poor and the needy people •	Flexibility; openness and appropriate  sustainability •	We work regardless of race, gender or political opinion. •	SOVA is flexible to sound change and welcomes creations from significant stakeholders.

Cluster Membership Somali Vulnerable Actors (SOVA) is a member of the following clusters. 1. Nutrition 2. Health 3. Protection 4. GBVWG 5. Food security 6. IYCFWG

Board of Trustees

SOVA has 6 Board of trustees (3 female and 3 male in order to make a good leadership SOVA gives equal right to both genders within the organization decision making.

SOVA Organization Board Members SOVA 6 Board members govern SOVA. The organization’s Board is responsible for the establishment and formulation of the organizational policy, overseeing and ensuring the NGO’s accountability to the stakeholders and organizing fundraising events for the NGO to promote its sustainability. The Board is elected every two years. It is also the responsibility of the Board members to elect the executive director of the organization.

Management Team Structure The management team of the Organization is responsible for implementation of the projects at the field level and reporting to the donors in close coordination and working with the stakeholders.

Target Group SOVA’s operations are designed to meet the needs of the affected people of all categories, the marginalized and the oppressed. SOVA supports initiatives from beneficiaries to promote their lives.

The Organization’s target groups include:

	Women 	The poor marginalized communities 	Communities affected by disasters (Natural and man-made) 	Youth and the vulnerable people 	The Internal Displaced People 	Communities with special needs

Focus: SOVA focuses on: •	Nutrition •	Health •	Agriculture and Livelihood •	Education •	Water Education and sanitation (WES) •	HIV/AIDS & FGM •	Human Rights •	 Humanitarian Response to emergencies •	Organizational Capacity Building •	Income generations for small scale projects •	Other NGOs capacity building •	Protection

Strategies and implementation approaches. Fund maintenance Our funds are entirely donated by well-wishers within the local’s and in the Diaspora. These contributions are just but a fraction of what is needed most of the times. To realize a more workable situation, SOVA operates on the budget on the ground and hence all the intended purposes are met but with limited options being given to the most urgent on its agenda and at the situation on ground.

SOVA pursues the following strategies and approaches to realize the execution of its objectives and a center core to reach its long-term vision. 	Institutional Capacity Building 	Lobbying, Advocacy and networking 	Partnership with donors UN and INGOs 	Partnership with local community 	Close cooperation with regional administrations 	Awareness campaigns

List of SOVA office Management Team 1.	Program Manager 2.	Program Coordinator 3.	Admin &Finance Officer 4.	Health & Nutrition Officer 5.	Livelihood officer 6.	Education, Agri&livelihood officer

List of all projects implemented by SOVA in Somalia since 2011

No.	Name of project	Donor	Name of referee at donor agency	Telephone number of referee at donor agency	E-Mail address of referee at donor agency	Type of activity District	Budget 1	Nutrition	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	IYCF	Belethawa	$11,000 2	Nutrition	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	NHHP	Belethawa	 $12,300 3	Livelihood	DIRECT AID	Mohamed Barre	0615906059	directaidsomalia@gmail.com	2500 hectors ploughing	Bardera	$32,300 4	Livelihood	DIRECT AID	Mohamed Barre	0615906059	directaidsomalia@gmail.com	Rehabilitation of irrigation canals at Zone 9 of Bardera Irrigation farms	Bardera	$43,200 5	Livelihood	BADA	Abdullahi Ahmed	0617136335	badabardera@yahoo.com	Provision of Seeds to the irrigated and rain fed farms in	Bardera	$13,800 6	Livelihood	RAAS	Abdi Hassan	0615569454	raasfpc@yahoo.com	Assisting returnees to re-cultivate their abandoned agricultural areas Maykarey area under	Garbaharey	$10,206 7	Nutrition	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	Breastfeeding	Belethawa	$6,000 8	Protection	SOVA	Idris Ibrahim	0615810818	sovasomalia@yahoo.com	Training, counseling, the risk against GBV and its prevention	Belethawa	$8,000

Sovasomalia2011 (talk) 10:44, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

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